Thermo Electron Launches New Software for Environmental Reporting

Posted on March 23, 2004 By Corinne Jones News

Thermo Electron Corporation has developed a new software package for environmental reporting, EnviroLab™ Forms. Designed to complement Thermo’s Finnigan™ DSQ GC/MS family of single quadrupole mass spectrometers, Envirolab Forms is a user-friendly program and gives environmental laboratories a choice of ten reporting formats.

Specifically written for the EPA methods performed on Finnigan GC/MS systems, EnviroLab Forms is a new, layered application that can be applied to data from Xcalibur® 1.3 and above. Ten different automated reports can be generated giving the environmental analyst increased confidence in the results, which comply with preset published criteria.

Unique to EnviroLab Forms are the DFTBB and BFB tune check forms. These forms automatically analyze the tune check compound peak. Based on decisions made in respective EPA methods, they make a pass/fail judgment on the ion ratios, thereby saving the operator valuable time. 

Other forms produced, include: initial calibration, continuing calibration, internal standard summary, quantitation, method detection limit, method validation, matrix spike and duplicate, surrogate recovery and blank reports.

For more information about Envirolab Forms and the Finnigan DSQ range of mass spectrometers, visit Thermo’s booth #1475 at Pittcon. Alternatively, call +1 800-532-4752 or e-mail analyze@thermo.com

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About Thermo Electron
A world leader in high-tech instruments, Thermo Electron Corporation helps life science, laboratory, and industrial customers advance scientific knowledge, enable drug discovery, improve manufacturing processes, and protect people and the environment with instruments, scientific equipment, services, and software solutions. Based in Waltham, Massachusetts, Thermo Electron has revenues of more than $2 billion, and employs approximately 11,000 people in 30 countries worldwide.

by Corinne Jones